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...Ruined. Last November President Kennedy asked John McCone, former head of the Atomic Energy Commission and now Director of the Central Intelligence Agency, to suggest the right man for the tough job of building Task Force 8. McCone's answer was brief: "Get Starbird." Within days, Major General Alfred Dodd Starbird, 49, was squeezing his lanky frame (6 ft. 5 in.) behind a desk in Barton Hall, a building saved from the wrecker's hammer by the sudden need for a temporary headquarters for the task force. A handsome, scholarly and reserved West Pointer, Starbird finished a respectable...
...Federal Government. Questioning by a board headed by Federal Judge E. Barrett Prettyman, plus intensive analysis of his account by CIA agents, had convinced the Government that Powers acquitted himself well as a Russian captive. But Powers' scheduled emergence from hiding was postponed while CIA Boss John McCone, with the Prettyman report in his hands, continued checking details of Powers' testimony be fore reporting his conclusions to Congress...
President Kennedy was kept up to date on the questioning by CIA Chief John McCone, who showed up at the White House every day to give him an oral briefing. At his news conference, the President announced that Powers was cooperating fully and that he had seen his wife Barbara and his parents. When the questioning is done, said Kennedy, Powers would become "a free agent," available to the press and to Congress. But the President warned that Powers will publicly reveal only information that "would be in the national interest to give...
...Senate, by a 71-12 vote, confirmed Republican John A. McCone as director of the Central Intelligence Agency. McCone, a wealthy Californian with oil and shipping interests, was Under Secretary of the Air Force in the Truman Administration, chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission under President Eisenhower. Though he won unanimous confirmation for those earlier posts, he ran into opposition this time on varied grounds. Maine's Republican Senator Margaret Chase Smith argued that McCone has never done intelligence work. South Dakota's Republican Senator Francis Case worried about McCone's business interests: "Will his instincts...
...Times linked Kistiakowsky's opposition to McCone, who is an outright advocate of the resumption of atmospheric testing, with other academic and political sources opposing any resumption of atmospheric nuclear testing whatsoever. In reversing his stand and currently supporting nuclear testing if militarily necessary, Kistiakowsky is now opposed by many at the University...